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Formulation F11828 on D2900: Quantile function
F11828
Formulation 1
Let $X \in \text{Random}(\mathbb{R})$ be a D3161: Random real number.
The quantile function of $X$ is the D4364: Real function \begin{equation} [0, 1] \to \mathbb{R}, \quad x \mapsto \inf \left\{ t \in \mathbb{R} : x \leq \mathbb{P}(X \leq t) \right\} \end{equation}